IND VS NZ - 4th ODI, New Zealand tour of India, 2016

Kohli and Dhoni cannot do it every time. At least they haven't done it at their respective home grounds! But New Zealand - after all the promise - finally arrive.. taking the series to a decider at Vizag. Hasn't been the most charismatic ODI series this: runs haven't exactly "flowed", thanks to the up-and-down pitches, and the fielding hasn't been exactly attractive as a package. But we have a contest; that's what sport is driven by. And that's what we want as fans. Join us back for cricket. For now, your commentator Pratyush Sinha takes leave. And so do my co-commentators Ramakrishnan, Raju Peethala, Abhishek Chaudhary and Vineet Anantharaman. Our scorer Siva says buh-bye too. Time to charge your phones now, ta-ta!

Martin Guptill - Man of the Match: "To put up a decent performance myself in defending a total, it's a great feeling. Everyone's ability to fight to the end. At the halfway point, bowlers had to do a job and they did well. Virat is a class player, and to get him out early is always early. We have to keep pushing on. Didn't think (that 72 will be the highest score in the match) but will take."

Kane Williamson - captain, New Zealand: "Improved effort, exactly what we wanted. Had partnerships throughout on a tough surface. 260 was not a bad total and we had the extra spinner. I think coming here with a game down, it was one of those confusing things. Dew may have come in or may not have. We just had to execute our skills well and it worked. I think so far in this ODI series we have played on a variety of surfaces. Has been long tour this. The guys have done well, executed their skills. When we get to Vizag, we need to have a look at the surface. A decider against India - a good side - is an exciting prospect."

MS Dhoni - captain, India: "I think we gave too many extras and too many runs early on. We could have done it still, with wickets in hand. Quite similar to the Delhi game where we kept losing wickets. It was good to see the lower order score runs, but wickets in hand would have been a good factor. I felt the wicket was best to bat in the afternoon and it kept getting slower. Older ball was not coming on. But with partnerships, this total could have been chased because the runs weren't too many. Youngsters will learn: a few of them will look to play big shots but they will play 10-15 games and learn their own way and figure things out for themselves. Cricket has evolved; newer generation like to play the big shots. You cannot tell them not to, because then they will get into a shell and it is difficult to get out of that. They will learn that if you go over the in-field, you have chances of getting out. We will lose a few but they will learn; we must not put a lot of pressure on them. With dew, you tend to bowl first because our spinners are not effective and we struggle to defend totals. But so far, dew hasn't been a factor this series. We should have won in Delhi but it's not about that. We have to be at our best in the decider, against New Zealand who are an experienced side. It keeps happening at the international stage."

Sanjay Manjrekar is on with the presentations. I'm gearing up for another long interview from Dhoni. Used to it. Stay put for the quotes because this is going to be interesting

Mitchell Santner: It is good to have my family here. Nice to take a win with the series alive to Vizag. We watched Mishra and Axar bowl in the first innings and we saw that the ball was turning if we got it to pitch in the right areas and mix up the pace up well. It is always tough bowling to Virat and Dhoni and I was trying to bowl into the deck and let the pitch rip it up. I just tried to bowl that hard length and not try and do too much. Tried to build pressure and keep it simple. We had an above par score here but we knew that we had to fight hard. Eked out a couple of important wickets and carried it on from there.

9:20pm local: So, India lose an ODI for the first time at Ranchi. And it took a few bold calls from Williamson to do that. Winning the toss was a start, opting to bat a pleasant surprise. He ruled out dew in favour of a big total on the board, and you cannot question that, because dew hasn't manoeuvred games in this ODI series at least. 260 odd looked just par to be fair, not daunting, especially given the momentum India had in Dhoni and Kohli. But New Zealand surprised, outfoxing India with cutters, forcing false shots with prudent fields set to protect bad deliveries. New Zealand could have won this earlier, but for this last wicket stand between Yadav and Kulkarni. Both the batsmen gave it a real go but were left with too much of a task. Capitulated to a slower ball, quite symbolically, handing New Zealand a welcome win.

Boult to U Yadav, out Caught by Ross Taylor!! New Zealand win and level the series 2-2. An encouraging last wicket stand for India but this had to yield; New Zealand were that good tonight. Yadav is starved for room on this back of a length delivery again, but he has to have a go. Lets out a flat-batted slap, got it off the splice - thanks to the lack of pace on that, meaning Yadav was early - and finds extra cover to kill all of India's hopes. End of a brilliant cricket match. U Yadav c Ross Taylor b Boult 7(12)

Boult to U Yadav, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Boult to D Kulkarni, 1 run, is cramped for room by the angle on this delivery. Backed away, is followed by Boult but Kulkarni lets out a heroic onederful (get the pun?) stab to third man

Boult to U Yadav, 1 run, a good length delivery that Yadav slaps to mid-off. The path's uninterrupted, so a single is on. And both these batsmen really don't have a choice: as in who should be on strike. Easy. They run

Boult to D Kulkarni, 1 run, gets the width from Boult. Not quite short but the line overrules here. Cut away to third man. A slash. An urgent slash

India need 23 off the last 2 overs. It's a matter of one wicket for the visitors but you know which stand can grow into a pesky irritant, right?

Southee to D Kulkarni, 1 run, has a real slash across the line. But he doesn't have the pace off the pitch, again. So the swat is mistimed, almost for its own good, because it falls well short and wide of the long-on fielder

Southee to U Yadav, 1 run, not the bounce that Yadav expects on this cutter. Perhaps hits the leather and doesn't get up. Yadav was swiveling to pull, crouches to adjust, and hoicks it to the left of the square leg umpire. In the no-man's land and a single

Southee to D Kulkarni, 1 run, rolls his fingers on this. Got this right this time, I believe. Full ball and drilled to mid-off with a loose grip on the handle

Southee to D Kulkarni, no run, fullish length here. Pushes the ball full here, not much bounce, meaning Kulkarni is crouching to keep this out

Southee to D Kulkarni, no run, stays back to a back of a length delivery. Normal pace, so Southee's is mixing them well here, keeping Kulkarni on the hook. Batsman stays back here and blocks to mid-on

Southee to U Yadav, 1 run, a deliberate short-pitched cutter this. Seems to have swung in too, and Yadav uses the movement in the air to whack it round the corner. Precious single here

Southee is back here